Is Bunny CDN or Fastly cheaper in 2026?

It depends on volume — Bunny CDN wins 2 of the 3 modelled workloads and Fastly wins 1. The scenario table above shows where the crossover falls.

What is the difference in egress cost between Bunny CDN and Fastly?

Bunny CDN charges $0.010 per GB against Fastly's $0.120, roughly 12× cheaper. Egress usually dominates the bill once traffic is measured in terabytes.

Which has the better free tier, Bunny CDN or Fastly?

Both publish one. Bunny CDN: 14-day trial, then a $1 monthly minimum. Fastly: 100 GB of bandwidth per month, permanently free.

What do these estimates not include?

Committed-use and reserved discounts, regional price variation, per-request API charges, support plans, and minimum retention periods. All of those move real invoices, sometimes by a lot. These figures compare published list prices for the same workload, which is the comparison the rate cards alone cannot give you.

Bunny CDN vs Fastly

Neither wins outright: Bunny CDN is cheaper for 2 of 3 workloads and Fastly for the rest.

List prices checked May 2026

Rate cards side by side

Only the axes at least one of them bills on. A dash means that provider does not charge for it.

Billing axis	Bunny CDN	Fastly	Difference
Data transfer out	$0.010/GB	$0.120/GB	12× Bunny CDN
Free tier	Yes	Yes	—

Source: bunny.net pricing (May 2026) · Fastly pricing (August 2026). Published list prices only — committed-use discounts, regional variation, and per-request charges are not included. Not yet independently re-checked against the vendor’s page.

Monthly cost for three real workloads

The rate cards applied to identical usage. This is where the winner changes.

Workload	Bunny CDN	Fastly	Cheaper
Side projectA personal site or small app with modest traffic, a few gigabytes of assets, and one small always-on process.	$1.00	$0	Fastlysaves $1.00/mo (100%)
Growing SaaSA funded product serving a few thousand daily users, with an image-heavy frontend and two application servers.	$10	$108	Bunny CDNsaves $98/mo (91%)
Media-heavy siteA publisher or video product where delivery dominates the bill and compute is almost an afterthought.	$100	$1,188	Bunny CDNsaves $1,088/mo (92%)

Workload definitions are identical on every comparison page, so figures here can be read against any other pair in the same category.

What each one is for

Bunny CDN

by bunny.net

Per-region pricing starting around a cent per gigabyte in North America and Europe, with no contract and a $1 monthly minimum. Roughly an eighth of CloudFront's rate at the same volume.

Free tier: 14-day trial, then a $1 monthly minimum

Fastly

by Fastly

A programmable CDN with instant global purge and edge compute. Priced at the top of the market per gigabyte and sold on control rather than cost, with a permanent 100 GB monthly free allowance.

Free tier: 100 GB of bandwidth per month, permanently free

Common questions

Is Bunny CDN or Fastly cheaper in 2026?: It depends on volume — Bunny CDN wins 2 of the 3 modelled workloads and Fastly wins 1. The scenario table above shows where the crossover falls.
What is the difference in egress cost between Bunny CDN and Fastly?: Bunny CDN charges $0.010 per GB against Fastly's $0.120, roughly 12× cheaper. Egress usually dominates the bill once traffic is measured in terabytes.
Which has the better free tier, Bunny CDN or Fastly?: Both publish one. Bunny CDN: 14-day trial, then a $1 monthly minimum. Fastly: 100 GB of bandwidth per month, permanently free.
What do these estimates not include?: Committed-use and reserved discounts, regional price variation, per-request API charges, support plans, and minimum retention periods. All of those move real invoices, sometimes by a lot. These figures compare published list prices for the same workload, which is the comparison the rate cards alone cannot give you.